The Hungarian Development Promotion Office (MFOI Advisory) has been established by the Hungarian Government with the aim of carrying out advocacy activities and helping Hungarian and Central-Eastern European applicants in obtaining direct EU funds. It operates as a background institution of the Ministry of Public Administration and Regional Development, with headquarters in Budapest, an office in Brussels, Veszprém and Ukraine. Its central task is to provide information on direct EU funds, funding opportunities and related policies, to establish a direct relationship between Hungarian social and economic actors and the EU institutions, and provide personalized support to its clients from the emergence of development and project ideas to the directly managed until the application for resources is submitted.

The 3R (Recycle-Recover-Reuse) is a technology-intensive company playing a leading international role in commercial up-cycling of agricultural and food industrial by-products by unique zero emission pyrolysis and other advanced/innovative integrated technologies for high added value material recovery in economical industrial scale and performance.CORE COMPETENCES: Industrialisation of innovative Refined Carbon and Graphene products. Nutrient recovery for organic and low input farming applications in line with the circular economy. Development and implementation of Phosphorus recovery technologies and products, Phosphorus reuse applications, LCA and CBA, market evaluations in the EU, USA and Australia; Advanced water treatment adsorbents and biochar processing; 3R zero emission pyrolysis technology and recovered nutrients combined formulations, incl. all elements from science into full industrialization value chain under market competitive conditions; EU policy knowledge and policy support, including Circular Economy, Green Deal, EU Fertilising Products Regulation (EU 1009/2019), EU Critical Raw Materials, REACH and Authority permitting of processing technologies & bio-based products. Standardization and EU law harmonization of innovative fertilizer products in economically important European dimensions.

The University of Pécs with its 20 000 students, with more than 4 500 international students, with 1 400 lecturers and researchers, with its 10 faculties is one of the largest higher education institutions in Hungary and the centre of knowledge within the Transdanubian region. Its roots date back to ;  

CEPOL is an agency of the European Union dedicated to develop, implement and coordinate training for law enforcement officials. Since 1 July 2016, the date of its new legal mandate1, CEPOL's official name is “The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training”.

Visegrad for Sustainability or V4SDG was created to become the organisation that paves the way towards the achievement of the SDGs in Central Eastern Europe. Our founders, four young professionals, realised that the region's sustainability actors are not connected enough, especially across sectors, and are not well-integrated into the global mainstream of sustainability affairs. Established in 2018, we have grown into a non-profit organisation of over 30 young professionals working on these objectives. We are starting with the Visegrad Countries but will soon expand to the rest of Central Eastern Europe.

The Centre for Social Sciences (Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre of Excellence) is a research institution where 200 Hungarian and international researchers engage in exploratory and innovative national and international research projects in the Social Sciences. Founded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and part of the Eötvös Loránd Research Network, the Centre’s charter established its freedom to research without political influence. Comprising four institutes—Political Science, Minority Studies, Legal Studies, Sociology, and other research units—, the Centre has greatly contributed to understanding and addressing far-reaching societal issues that pertain to Hungarian and European societies.The Centre’s research activities focus on sociology, political science, computational social science, network science, minority studies, and law. Researchers take an interdisciplinary approach in their scientific work. The Centre’s main goals are to extend the quality of Hungarian research to Europe and beyond, to take a prominent regional lead in social science research, and to serve as a point of scientific reference in Hungary. The Centre currently operates over 70 local and international research projects, it manages an open access repository for research data, and provides consultations for its researchers on GDPR and data management.Publishing six journals—two of them ranked by SCOPUS—, the Centre’s ambition has also been to expand its international publication portfolio in highly ranked international journals and publishing companies. A state-of-the-art research performance evaluating system has been used since 2013 with a focus on internal publications. Between 2017 and 2018, the efforts led to a 50% increase in the number of published works. Researchers at the Centre have actively engaged in international projects with EU’s H2020 research funding scheme. The Centre has worked on managing and participating in several of these projects. In 2018, the H2020 Research and Innovation Action project proposal DEMOS, which the Centre coordinates, won a €3 million grant from the European Commission. The Centre acts as work package and task leader of several ongoing H2020 projects such as BRIDGES, OPTED, RED-WELL, ESS-SUSTAIN-2, and RURALIZATION. The Centre also took part in a variety of other H2020 and FP7 projects (such as MIME, MOPACT, FAMILIES & SOCIETIES), COST actions, and Visegrad grants.A professional research administration team constantly sharpens its expertise in proposal writing, research communication and impact, and management of international grants. Besides receiving domestic and international training, the members of the Centre’s administration play active roles in international research management networks, such as EARMA and BESTPRAC.

Design Terminal is Central Europe’s leading innovation agency, which builds ‘Innovation Champions’ through corporate partnerships and talent acceleration. We believe entrepreneurial culture is based on optimism, which drives meaningful innovation.

ifempower wishes to empower females to get engaged in self-employment and entrepreneurship especially in SMEs. Based on a preparatory research on the role of females in European SMEs, investigating the main roles, hindrances, gaps and market needs, the project will elaborate a module for university students which can support to broaden their knowledge on entrepreneurship related topics, providing hands-on training to support their engagement in self-employment and entrepreneurship. This module will be jointly developed by partners, accredited and launched at partner universities for 2-4 semesters. ifempower gathers partners from two pillars of the knowledge triangle, namely businesses, business support organizations and universities and will make important efforts to engage the government sector to channel in the results of the project. Involvement of the civil sphere is assured through ASPs. The project represents an innovative and participatory approach by providing a mentorship programme for participating students by connecting them to entrepreneurs. Apart from developing curricula, the project will launch personal consultancy for interested students to provide further support for their engagement and online support toolkit. This project began on September 2018 and will last 3 years. It is under the lead of HÉTFA Research Institute Hungary.

Our Team believes the best way to be a good partner with anyone is by building a good and healthy relationship. This means that our clients interest are our number one priorities. We strive that our clients are satisfied and that they are well informed of their respective industry once they attend our events. If our clients are not pleased then we are not satisfied as we believe a happy satisfied client = a good partner

HETFA is an independent think tank in Budapest, Hungary established in 2009 by young economists, political scientists and sociologists sharing theoretical and practical experience in social research, public administration and consultancy. Our goal is to provide useful and evidence-based analyses on national as well as local policy issues for the decision-makers and the policy expert community to improve the quality of public debates and public decisions. HETFA uses a multidisciplinary approach in its research projects on the following fields: public governance, entrepreneurship and SME policy, better regulation and cutting red tape, employment policy, health & education, local governance, cohesion policy, regional policy, and rural development and development opportunities of lagging regions.

KTC International is a training & consulting firm, specializing in brining leading international speakers to cities across Europe. Our events aim to help delegates and their organizations to achieve strategic goals by proper implementation of project management tools & techniques, smooth business change and use of technology. People presenting at our events are those who set the global standards and include coveted PMI Global Congress speakers, such as Dr. Prasad Kodukula, Karl Muenchow, Liam Dillon, Dr. Richard Graham or Roger Burlton, among many others. KTC International was established in 2003 with headquarters in Budapest, Hungary. With a track-record spaning over 14 years, we have been instrumental in organizing over 500 different congresses, conferences, forums, round-tables, seminars, workshops and specialized in-house events, that gathered more than 10,000 people in total.

We either find a way or make one.

An independent, non-governmental, privately-organised institution representing the interest of national and international companies doing business in Europe (50 countries), improving the business environment they are active in.Objectives

The Laboratory of Plastics and Rubber Technology at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) does basic and applied research in several areas including melting, crystallization and morphology of crystalline polymers, interactions-structure-properties relationships in heterogeneous polymer systems and various biobased materials.

Our Mission: Offering an English-speaking conference setting – for all who would like to practice their foreign language conference skills in a professional environment. We are aware that in the European countries few professionals in the field of education have the chance to give presentations or ask professional questions in English, so fluency is not a prerequisite.Creating professional discourse in the CEE region – we are dedicated to connect scholars and other professionals in the field of education in Europe, to facilitate their academic cooperation.

THE UNIVERSITY OF WEST HUNGARY is known as one of the top higher educational institutions in Hungary, with the eighth largest number of students in the country. Our campuses in five historical Western Hungarian towns offer up-to-date knowledge to almost 15 thousand students. The university offers a broad range of degree programs from undergraduate to master and doctoral programs with excellent teaching and research. We are proud of the fact that at our university the two cultures, arts and sciences, are in harmony. Our faculties offer teacher training courses for nursery school and primary education. We train agricultural engineers, engineers for forestry and wood sciences. Our students can pursue communication and media studies, studies in philology, philosophy, informatics, economics and interior design, just to mention the most important ones. The University of West Hungary started the “Green University” program in 2009, supported by EU funds, and has been working on ecologically, economically and socially adaptable methods for providing sustainable development. Being a research university, we spend 15-20 % of our budget on research and educational activity. More than 70 % of the academic staff has scientific degrees. As a net university, we contribute actively to the development of the Western Hungarian region.

The EIT aims to give Europe's innovation capacity and its readiness for the knowledge society a much needed boost. Its overall goal is to create a new European way of delivering essential economic growth and societal benefits through innovation. The EIT responds to Europe's particular situation, where the three sides of the knowledge triangle - excellent higher education, research and innovative business - are often still fragmented, thereby hindering a free flow of knowledge. The mission of the EIT is to grow and capitalise on the innovation capacity of partners from the knowledge triangle from the EU and beyond, notably via highly integrated Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs).

Founded in 1991, International Business School Budapest (IBS) was one of the first private business colleges in Central Europe. Right at the beginning IBS formed strategic alliance with Oxford Brookes University, one of the best modern universities of Great Britain, and has been offering joint degree Bachelor's and Master's programmes in different field of business ever since. The Oxford Brookes degrees open up doors for IBS graduates in the labour markets of Great Britain, the European Union and the world at large.As from September 2011 IBS offers two BSc programmes on its new campus in Vienna, Austria, in cooperation with the University of Wales.Besides BA, BSc and MSc programmes IBS also offers a one month long Summer School (combined with social programmes) and a one year-long Intensive English Language Programme for those who wish to improve their English skills.

Organizations concerned with IT development, sales, education, and research in the North Great Plain Region of Hungary have expressed their will to cooperate with the primary aim of creating a more concentrated regional IT-sector. The first visible result of this cooperation was the formation of the IT Cluster in the North Great Plain Region. The IT Cluster is open for every enterprise, research institution and educational organization and provides its services for every business actor that main